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Questionnaires to Assist Jury Selection

Resource Guide

The Center for Jury Studies

 

American Bar Association, Committee on Jury Standard.  Standards Relating to Juror Use and Management, 101, 106 (1993) (Standard 11(c) and commentary describe the use of juror questionnaires to determine qualification for jury service).

Lisa Blue, Ted A. Donner & Jane N. Saginaw.  Jury Selection: Strategies and Science 8:11-12 (1986) (provides sample jury questionnaires).

Floyd J. Fowler.  Survey Research Methods (rev. ed 1988) (a technical manual for questionnaire design and administration).

Jeffrey T. Frederick.  Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection, 122-48 (1995) (practitioner's manual for preparing juror questionnaires).

Richard B. Klein.  "Low-Tech Automated Jury Instructions."  35 Judges' Journal 36 (Summer 1996) (describing videotaped instructions for the completion of general civil and criminal voir dire questionnaires).

Elissa Krauss & Beth Bonora, eds., Jurywork: Systematic Techniques, 2.10[1][c][iii] (vol. 1, 2d ed. 1995) (describing preparation procedures for voir dire questionnaires).

Timothy R. Murphy, Genevra Kay Loveland & G. Thomas Munsterman.  A Manual for Managing Notorious Cases, 171-187 (National Center for State Courts, 1992) (Appendix 8 describes the use of juror questionnaires in United States v. Marion S. Barry, Jr.).

V. Hales Starr & Mark McCormick.  Jury Selection: An Attorney's Guide to Jury Law and Methods, 46-47, 132-133 (2d ed. 1993).

Dennis Bilecki.  "Efficient Method of Jury Selection for Lengthy Trials."  73 Judicature 43 (June-July 1989) (study of the effect of pre-voir dire questionnaires on the costs associated with jury selection in complex trials).